... The Farmers' Claim The Future of Our Oldest Industry Has Now Become an Issue of National, Economic, and Political Importance Prices the Crux of the Matter By J. BAKER WHITE WRITING in THE SPHERE in October last on the state of British agriculture I drew attention to the growing discontent in farming districts and said that over all the realm of agriculture a new spirit is stirring, a spirit ...

... FIGHTING ROCK and FLOODWATER to bore THE SAN JACINTO TUNNEL A Hazardous Undertaking Completed in America's Golden West Cutting Thirteen Miles of Aqueduct Beneath a 10,800-ft. Mountain A very remarkable engineering feat has just been accomplished in Southern California with the completion of the thirteen-mile tunnel which, in the face of appalling difficulties, has been bored through 10,800-ft. ...

... Our M ECHANISED ARMY A Series of Ficfure! Done to Modernise Evidencing What Has Been and Is Being and Give Mobility to the Armed Forces THE ARMY MARCHES Infantrymen loading their kit on to a lorry before starting out on manoeuvres. This rapid means of transporting troops has needless ON WHEELS: to say revolutionised the art of warfare, allowing a commander in the field to concentrate at ...

... I-- DCC [ID\/|M I n I I A i\ Pi A Moorland Cottage in T ork Castle Museum An KLJCKV II N L U I I N vJ7 L/A I N LS Appeal for Wolsey's Tower A Cheshire Mansion Saved A VIVID RECONSTRUCTION of a typical domestic scene in the Yorkshire of a generation ago. The living room of a moorland cottage which has just been opened to public view at the York Castle Museum of Bygones and which contains, among ...

... , BURTON-ON-TRENT, ENGLAND clbte England Tintagel Cornwall A Cornish tale has it that King Arthur's spirit still haunts the ruins in the sailing body of a chough. For this is the most ghostly castle in our land, more steeped in ancient legend than Stonehenge' and there is nothing of it 1 Some crumbled masonry above the hungry waves, rabbits upon the close-cropped turf that carpets now the roof ...

... FLY-CASTING ACES: The World's Championship Tournament of the British Casting Associat'on was held at Ranelagh Club last Saturday, and among the contestants (left to right) were Mr. Arthur New, U.S.A. champion in accuracy casting Lord Glanusk and Mr. M. K. Hedge, the world champion trout caster CASTING HOPES ON A PRIZE A general view of the amateur trout-fly distance cast with A. F. Diemer ...

... Headlined Ni ws in Pictures THfc DUKE OF KENT AT WORKING MEN'S FLATS: His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent presided at the opening ceremony of a block of flats at Lennox House, South Hackney, last week. He is seen above about to make his opening address from the balcony of the flats to the cheering inhabitants below AERIAL SURVEY Mr. Leslie Burgin, Minister of Transport, and Mr. F. C. Cock, ...

... BIRTH of MERCHANT NAVy WEEK by Dog^Watch For the Men of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets They dare all weathers in all climes and seas In every kind of ship the risks they run Are all the greatest underneath the sun. Their Fortune is as flinty as their bread. Some truces Nature grants them, never peace; The work they do is hourly undone. By them, we make our money and are fed, Let England, ...

... MARSHALL SMELGROVE MARSHALL SMELGROVE /GOOD burs create an aura of beauty and they contribute greatly to the elegance of the Season's fashions. For wearing, from morning until night there are fashionable Furs for every occasion Persian Lamb, Mink, and Ermine being very much in fhe limelighf. A Cape for Restaurant Wear in Dyed Arctic Fox as illustrated 39 Gns In White Fox 45 Gns In Natural ...

... News Out of Africa The Governor of the Gold Coast Holds a Durbar at Kumasi The Victoria Falls Harnessed for Electricity A Cecil Rhodes Dream Becomes a Reality A RED LETTER DAY IN ASHANTI Sin Arnold Hodson, Governor of the Gold Coast, pictured as he walked beneath a State umbrella during the Durbar held in Kumasi when His Excellency, acting on behalf of the King, presented the Insignia of the K ...

... Tunis the DUCE Is it Fantasy to Picture Mussolini, Marshal of Empire, Facing with Flashing Sword the Carthage that Once was the Granary of Rome? Asks FERDINAND TUOHY WHAT next, O Duce? Another little war, apparently, or, rather, a conceivably big one this time. Whether or not Signor Mussolini did actually refer to the third victorious campaign in which I will lead you is to a certain extent ...

... BLACK HORSE TROOPERS OF NEW YORK STATE American Counterpart o I the Canadian Mounties ON SNOW-SHOE PATROL A special section of the New York Police patrols the Adirondack mountains under conditions of loneliness in remarkable contrast to the advanced civilisa tion in other parts of the State. Above on right-- Captain Broadfield out on patrol with a sergeant armed with rifle OUT ON RELIEF: The ...